1 . True happiness lies in rewarding relationships, not material wealth, according to new research. Scientists have said that a close circle of friends and family is most important for happiness, and that owning things such as iPhones, computers, being wealthy and owning a sports car do not provide the same level of satisfaction.

The study was done by psychologists at the Sahlgrenska Academy and Lund University, in Sweden. The experts analyzed articles in Swedish newspapers published in 2016 and recorded which words most often occurred in the same articles as the Swedish word for happiness. In this way, they could know our common happiness.

Co-author Dr Danilo Garcia, a researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy’s Center for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, said, “It’s relationships that are most important, not material things that we possess, and this is in line with other findings in happiness research.”

The study, which contained more than 1.5 million words, showed that terms such as “grandmother” and personal pronouns such as “you”, “me”, “us” and “them” often emerge in the same article as the Swedish word for happiness. Researchers found that words such as “iPhone”, “millions” and “Google” almost never appear with the word “happiness”.

The study is a part of a larger research project on how people describe both positive and negative events in their lives. The researchers believe that the word analysis reflects a common perception among the members of our society as to what should make us happy.

Dr Danilo Garcia said, “Just as the Beatles sang, most people understand that money can’t buy you happiness or love. But even if we can understand the importance of close and warm relationships at a social level, it isn’t certain that everyone is aware that such relationships are actually necessary for our own personal happiness.”

1. New research mainly shows that ________.

A．various things can lead to happiness in people

B．having some close friends is very important to us

C．owning expensive things can actually make us happy

D．rewarding relationships make us happy instead of material wealth

2. How did the experts arrive at their findings?

A．By doing surveys.

B．By doing experiments.

C．By analyzing printed articles.

D．By referring to previous studies.

3. What Dr Danilo Garcia in Paragraph 3 shows that the new findings ________.

A．explain something new

B．are unbelievable to many people

C．prove material things are unimportant

D．confirm previous findings in happiness research

4. What does the underlined word “emerge” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Appear.

B．Spread.

C．Start.

D．Unite.

5. Dr Danilo Garcia doubts whether ________.

A．money really buys us happiness or love

B．rewarding relationships really lead to personal happiness

C．close and warm relationships are important at a social level

D．all people know rewarding relationships lead to personal happiness

4 . I can remember when my daughter Maggie, who is now six, used to crawl into my lap and say, “Daddy, read me a story.” Last year she announced, “Daddy, I’m going to read you a story.”

Maggie was a television child. When she first became conscious of anything beyond eating and sleeping, the TV set was right there, and it soon commanded her attention.

A few years ago, we were worried not only that we’d never get the children away from the set long enough to learn to read, but that we’d forget how to read ourselves. But in 1955 there was not only more reading than before TV, but more reading than ever before in history.

Clearly, reading has survived television as it has survived a lot of other things. When I was six, a wail went up about menaces (威胁) to reading at home: motor cars and cinema. When Maggie came along, there was television. The motorcar, the radio, the cinema and television do take up a lot of time.

Well, we’ve got more time. When my mother was a girl, people worked about 60hours a week. Now it’s 44. When Maggie grows up, it’ll be 30. And there’ll be numerous gadgets to do her housework. She’ll have to read. You can’t watch TV all day. At present Maggie is reading about Johnny Woodchuck. Ahead of her—and I’m a little envious—are her first brush with Black Beauty, Alice stepping through the looking glass, Huck and Jim drifting down the Mississippi, the emotional storms of Shakespeare, the spiritual agonies of Tolstoy. For reading isn’t all joy. Like life itself, it’s mixed with many moods, from ecstasy (狂喜) to despair. Maggie will learn to take the rough with the smooth, gathering from the ancient wisdom of long-dead genius a little fire to enrich her spirit.

And some day, if she’s lucky, she’ll get the biggest thrill of all, when a little girl climbs into her lap and announces, “Mummy, I’m going to read you a story.”

1. Which of the following things used to catch Maggie’s attention too much?

A．The motorcar.

B．The radio.

C．The cinema.

D．The television.

2. Why do the young generation like Maggie have more access to reading?

A．They face less working pressure.

B．There is more time available for reading.

C．Their parents encourage them more often.

D．They have a stronger desire for knowledge.

3. What makes the author envious of Maggie?

A．Her exposure to classic reading.	B．Her productive works in writing.
C．Her wild imagination in daily life.	D．Her spiritual reflection on the books.

4. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 6 imply?

A．Maggie has rich experiences.

B．Maggie has a good plan for reading.

C．Maggie will benefit a lot from reading.

D．Maggie is on the road to becoming a genius.

5. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．It is a blessing that reading can be passed down.

B．More girls like Maggie enjoy telling stories.

C．Maggie’s daughter brings her the biggest thrill.

D．Reading makes Maggie a fortunate girl.

5 . When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get good scores on certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behaving, especially in a new or upsetting situation. If we want to test intelligence, we need to find out how a person acts instead of how much he knows what to do.

For instance, when in a new situation, an intelligent person thinks about the situation, not about himself or what might happen to him. He tries to find out all he can, and then he acts immediately and tries to do something about it. He probably isn’t sure how it will all work out, but at least he tries. And, if he can’t make things work out right, he doesn’t feel ashamed that he failed; he just tries to learn from his mistakes. An intelligent person, even if he is very young, has a special outlook on life, a special feeling about life, and knows how he fits into it.

If you look at children, you’ll see great differences between what we call “bright” children and “not-bright” children. They are actually two different kinds of people, not just the same kind with different amount of intelligence. For example, the bright child really wants to find out about life—he tries to get in touch with everything around him. But the unintelligent child keeps more to himself and his own dream world; he seems to have a wall between him and life in general.

1. According to this passage, intelligence is ________.

A．the ability to know what to do

B．the ability to do well in school

C．the ability to deal with life

D．the ability to get high scores on some tests

2. In a new situation, an intelligent person ________.

A．knows more about what might happen to him

B．is sure of the result he will get

C．concentrates on what to do about the situation

D．cares more about himself

3. If an intelligent person failed, he would ________.

A．try not to feel ashamed	B．learn from his experiences
C．try to find all he could	D．make sure what result he would get

4. Bright children and non-bright children ________.

A．are two different types of children

B．are different mainly in their degree of cleverness

C．have difference only in their way of thinking

D．have different knowledge about the world

5. The author of this passage will probably continue to talk about________.

A．how to determine what intelligence is

B．how education should be conducted

C．how to solve practical problems

D．how an unintelligent person should be taught

6 . A strong feeling of shock and fear caught the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle.Caught in a trench (战壕)with continuous gunfire flying over his head , the soldier asked his lieutenant(中尉) if he might go out into the “No Man’s Land” between the trenches to bring his fallen friend back.

“You can go,” said the Lieutenant , “but I don’t think it will be worth it. Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your own life away.” The Lieutenant’s words didn’t matter, and the soldier went anyway.

Surprisingly he managed to reach his friend, pick him up onto his shoulder, and bring him back to their company’s trench. As the two of them tumbled in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer checked the wounded soldier, and then looked kindly at his friend. “I told you it wouldn’t be worth it,” he said. “Your friend is dead, and you are badly wounded.”

“It was worth it, though, sir,” the soldier said.

“How do you mean, ‘worth it?’” responded the Lieutenant. “Your friend is dead!”

“Yes sir,” the soldier answered. “But it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive, and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say, ‘Jim, I knew you’d come.’”

1. When the Lieutenant allowed the soldier to go to carry his friend, the soldier was________.

A．disappointed

B．angry

C．willing

D．fearful

2. When the soldier went to save his friend, his friend ________.

A．was still alive

B．was still fighting against the enemy

C．had died in battle

D．was hiding in a place

3. What happened during the soldier’s rescue?

A．They ran across the enemy’s trench.

B．The soldier was safe and sound.

C．The soldier’s friend was shot to death.

D．The soldier’s legs weren’t badly wounded.

4. Why the soldier considered his rescue was ‘worth’”?

A．He knew his friend needed him to go.

B．He wanted to get reputation among the soldiers.

C．He thought he’s strong enough to do the rescue.

D．He thought his friend was still alive.

5. During the accident, who was to blame?

A．The soldier.	B．The Lieutenant.
C．The soldier’s friend.	D．The enemy.

7 . A star athlete at the college where I work recently stopped by my office. After committing a few unforced errors during a weekend match, she suffered severely by self-criticism.

This student, like many I teach, strongly believes she should be able to control the outcomes of her life by virtue of her hard work. In her mind, “Nothing can stop me but myself”. So when these students fall short of what they imagine they should accomplish, they are filled with self-blame, reasoning, “If my accomplishments are mine to control, my failures must be entirely my faults, too”, which makes it extremely difficult for them to move on.

We often owe young adults struggling with failure to their parents’ over protection of them from discomfort. But there is another factor at play—a message transmitted by indulging (纵容的) parents who have falsely promised them that they can achieve anything if they are willing to work for it. However, the cruel reality of life is that you can do everything in your power—and still fail. _______

Psychologists Luthar and Kumar urge parents and teachers to spend time helping students find purpose, or goals they genuinely love to pursue and that make an impact on the world, which may help them gain greater life satisfaction and become more psychologically mature. Besides, instead of allowing our kids to beat themselves up when things don’t go their way, we might all question a culture where one is considered lazy without full devotion. The point is to remind them that life has a way of sucker-punching (出其不意) us when we least expect it. It’s often the people who learn to say “stuff happens” who get up the fastest.

1. What does the underlined phrase “by virtue of” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．in addition to	B．in spite of
C．by means of	D．for fear of

2. The author believes that young adults find it hard to struggle with failure because ______.

A．they are not taught how to deal with difficulties

B．they are short of the ability to handle failure

C．they are under the protection of their parents

D．they are misled by their parents’ false message

3. Which of the following sentences can go into the blank in Paragraph 3?

A．But what is the reason for that?

B．Actually there are some findings.

C．Then what should be done to help?

D．So experts have their own concerns.

4. What did psychologists Luthar and Kumar urge parents and teachers to do?

A．To teach students how to avoid faults.

B．To lead students to set their truly loved goals.

C．To help students to discover a path to success.

D．To allow kids to blame themselves.

5. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Students don’t care about failure at all.

B．Students are sure to succeed if they try their best.

C．Students should bear all the failures on their own.

D．Students with positive attitudes can move on more easily.

8 . U. S. Open Championships

The US Open has been in existence for almost 140 years. The first tournament was held in 1881 at the Newport Casino. It was called the US National Singles Championship. Entry was limited to only those clubs which were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, and the competitors were all male, competing in both single and doubles. Richard Sears won the men’s championship and he went on to win the next six men’s singles championships.

The Wimbledon

In 1875, the All England Croquet Club was troubled financially due to declining membership. A new sport called lawn tennis was gaining fast in popularity and taking away the members. Two years later, a new roller was needed for maintaining its lawns so the club proposed to hold a tournament to raise money. Twenty-two players entered that first Wimbledon tournament which was won by Spencer Gore in straight sets over W. C. Marshall. Two hundred spectators each paid a shilling to watch the final game, enabling the club to buy the needed roller plus some extra cash.

The French Open

The very first French Championship was held way back in 1891, and the tournament has since grown into one of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments we know today. The first competition was a one-day national championship which was won by a British. The competition was poorly attended by world class players. It took 24 years before it became fully international and an accepted tennis grand slam event. After the First World War, French tennis was achieving stature（重要性）. Suzanne Lenglen was the predominant（卓越的）French player, winning the championships six times between 1920 and 1926.

The Australian Open

The very first tennis tournament ever played in Australia was held in January 1880, on the courts of the Melbourne Cricket Club. In 1905, the Australian Open was established as the Australasian Tennis Championship and was played at the Warehouseman’s Cricket Ground in Melbourne. It became the Australian Championship in 1927 and the Australian Open in 1969. Women’s events were added in 1922.

1. What do we know about the first U. S. Open?

A．It was sponsored and organized by a tennis club.

B．Only men were allowed to play in the game.

C．Richard Sears won six men’s championships.

D．It has remained the same through all these years.

2. The purpose of the first Wimbledon tournament was to ______.

A．raise some fund for a lawn roller

B．attract more people to play tennis

C．celebrate the renaming of the club

D．make the game more enjoyable

3. According to what is said about the first French Open, ______.

A．the tournament has been played in the same place all these years

B．twenty-two players played in the first tournament

C．few good tennis players took part in the first French Championship

D．the players played in singles and doubles in the tournament

4. What is common about the four international tournaments is that ______.

A．they were all born in the same year

B．they have all experienced financial difficulties

C．they all had only male players at the beginning

D．they all have had a history of 130 years or more

5. The passage mainly tells us ______.

A．how the four international tennis tournaments came into being

B．how long it took for women to play in the tennis tournaments

C．what the international tennis tournaments brought to the world

D．why the tennis tournaments are held in these four countries

10 . Being able to find high quality health care at an affordable price is a problem to be solved in many countries. In the United States, Walmart, a large chain store, is trying to help. It is offering something new to its employees: cutting the cost of a doctor’s appointment to only $4 instead of the usual $40 for the same service.

The catch is that the patient and doctor must meet over the internet. This online service is called “telemedicine.”

Walmart is the latest major business in the United States to push its workers toward a high-tech way to be examined and treated by doctors. Thanks to telemedicine, people can talk with medical experts from the privacy of their own homes, often using a secure video connection.

Supporters say online visits make it easier for patients to see an expert or quickly find help for problems considered non-emergencies.

Some healthcare needs are well-suited for telemedicine. It can help people seeking treatment for insect bites or skin conditions. Patients who have had medical treatments and cannot move around easily can use telemedicine for their follow-up visits. Also, people seeking help for mental health issues can benefit from the privacy that telemedicine gives.

But still, many people do not use telemedicine, they continue to go to the doctor’s office when they are sick. 80 percent of middle-size and large U.S. companies offered telemedicine services to their workers in 2018. However, only 8 percent of its employees used telemedicine at least once in 2017.

Compared with seeing a real doctor in person, some people may think the quality of telemedicine is not as good. Parents, for example, may feel they are not giving their child the best care if they use a virtual doctor appointment. Older adults may look forward to their in-person doctor appointments. For them, going to the doctor’s office is a big event, something they look forward to.

Another reason some adults may not use telemedicine services is trust. Tom Hill, aged 66, says he has no plans to ever use telemedicine. He does not buy anything online, let alone do something as personal as seeing a doctor. He says, for him, it is important to look his doctor in the eye and shake hands.

However, for some people, especially young people and busy students, telemedicine might be a good choice. It can cut down on the time away from work. It can also cut down on the cost of doctor visits.

1. What is Walmart trying to help with?

A．Finding something new for its employees.

B．Promoting the online service “telemedicine”.

C．Cutting the online cost of a doctor’s appointment.

D．Reducing the cost of seeing a doctor at a much lower price.

2. What is True about “telemedicine”?

A．It enables patients to see doctors at home for free.

B．It has become increasingly popular in America.

C．It is the online service that is provided by most large US companies.

D．It makes it easier to see a doctor for emergency problems.

3. Why do most people prefer to go to the doctor’s office when they are ill?

A．Because their company doesn’t provide telemedicine.

B．Because they don’t trust the doctors online.

C．Because they look forward to a virtual doctor appointment.

D．Because they have made friends with the doctors.

4. Who is most likely to apply “telemedicine”?

A．Jenny, a shy woman who suffers from mental illness.

B．Smith, a grandpa who has been bitten by a running dog.

C．Wilson, a worker who got seriously injured in a car accident.

D．Kate, a mother whose kid is suffering from a skin disease.

5. What is the author’s attitude towards “telemedicine”?

A．Positive.

B．Negative.

C．Objective.

D．Doubtful.